“The Representation of Freedom and Absurdity in Contemporary Narrative: An Existentialist Comparative Analysis of Escape (2024) through the Philosophical Frameworks of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.”

This study examines the representation of freedom and absurdity in the South Korean film Escape (2024) through an existentialist framework drawn from the philosophies of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. By reading the film as a contemporary narrative of resistance against oppressive structures, the analysis explores how the protagonist’s struggle embodies the tension between external constraint and inner agency. The film’s portrayal of border, surveillance, and mortal risk provides a space to investigate existential themes in a modern political context. Sources: Sartre, Being and Nothingness, p. 535; Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p. 28. In a comparative approach, the study connects the protagonist’s choices with Sartre’s conception of radical freedom and Camus’s vision of the absurd, emphasizing how the film dramatizes existential decision-making under extreme conditions. The narrative’s movement between fatalism and self-determination reveals how meaning is constructed through action, even when the surrounding world appears hostile or irrational. This reading positions Escape as a contemporary text that reimagines foundational existential questions within a cinematic form. Sources: Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, p. 42; Camus, The Rebel, p. 10. Keywords: Absurdity, Camus ,Existentialism,Freedom,Sartre

کلیدواژه ها:

Absurdity ، Camus ، Existentialism ، Freedom ، Sartre